Example Sentences

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The podcast, I’m afraid, is eye-wateringly boring—void of a single revelatory moment.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

Leaseholders have complained about hefty bills with little detail or unexplained demands for eye-wateringly high sums.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2024

After decades of ballooning costs and production delays, the most powerful space observatory ever built launched on Christmas 2021 before beginning an eye-wateringly delicate unfolding process in the depths of space.

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

Its “cucumber mustard seeds salad” is eye-wateringly sour and topped with bristles of chili thread, also unpleasantly burny.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

“For anyone not interested in food, it would have been eye-wateringly boring,” Blunt said in an email of their gastronomic conversations.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2021